| Show NEW BANK BLOCK A Glance at the Plans of the McCornick Bulletins IS MODERN I EVERY RESPECT A Builking That When Completed will beat be-at Least Ten Years Ahead of the Growing City The McCornick oank block saliarchi ted Louis Mendelsohn is modelled after the best plan of office buildings I has a frontage of 4i > 4 on Main and 155 on First South and will be seven stories high The exterior is in the Italian renaissance style and is a very pure specimen of that style in regard to detail The basement which will be > about 9 feet above the sidewalk will be either of a red or brown stone cut in rock face work and very boldly dressed which wi form the baso of the building The superstructcre will be built of a light colored stone the Kyune or similar rock The front part of the building which will be tho bank and extends back seventyfive feet from Main street is arranged with very wide and high windows to give ample light to the banking rocm and the stonework of this part will be crandelled Back of the banking room is the elevator entrance being the main entrance to the building It is fifteen feet wide and twentyfive ieet high very much enriched with moulded orchitraves paunelled jambs hard woodwork and bevelled plate glass The transom of this entrance is faced with malachite West of this entrance are tree stores The most conspicuous feature of the Main street front isjithe entrance to the bank This is ten feet wide flanked on each side by two granite columns each two I and onehalf feet in diameter embellished i with bases sculptured capitols supporting an enriched entablature cornice and balustrade balus-trade which combined forms a magnificent magnifi-cent porch to the entrance The upper stories of the building are enriched with moulded casings carved cornices and the whole crowned by a very rich cornice of pure Italian architecture All the windows win-dows and doors of the exterior will be glazed with the very finest quality of plate glass The vestibule of the porch already described de-scribed will be finished i tho very finest mahogany and will be very elaborate the panels being filled with beveled plate glass The steps in this entrance will bo of the L u < 1 mh imust quality 01 owaiuuu luiuuiu LUU ceiling of the bank vestibule will be grained enriched with moulded ribs and foliated bosses The banking room will be 45 > feet wide 75 feet long and 19 feet high 47 he ceiling will be handsomely paneled with beams cornices and entablatures The public space will bo paved with the finest quality of marble inlaid mosaic work and rich coloring col-oring ana design The counters screens and other wood finish will be of the best quality of mahogany The money vault wil be lined four inches thick with steel and iron that is hard and soft metal The door to the money vault will be prod with time lock and in this detail de-tail the greatest care has been taken in providing the bet known burglar proof work In addition to the money vault there will ho larpe book vault fitted up complete with iron racks and shelving The elevator entrance will finished entirely en-tirely on the walls and ceilings with the I finest pink Tennessee marble the floor I being of marble mosaic In this entrance I there will be a rich marble staircase with bronze rails neivels and banisters Thare will be two elevators of bronze metal and having a speed of 500 feet to tho minute making the seventh story offices even more desirable than those on the lower floors This entrance is really the chef d oumc oft of-t building The upper stories are divided into offices large and small provided with wash stands wardrobes and vaults the finish and floors being of quarter sawed oak and in point of finish is equal to the very best office finish to be seen in the city of Chicago All the details have been provided such as chair moulds picture moulds cornices reception of electric lighting wires telephone wires etc The toilet rooms both for women and men are fitted up entirely with marble trimmings nickelplated Especial attention at-tention has been given to the most perfect per-fect lighting and ventUIation and there will not bea dark or complicated spot in the building The idea being to make this the most perfect office building in every particular par-ticular to be found west of Chicago and equal to any found in that city Mr McCornick and Mr Richards who has tho rear twentyfive foot frontage deserve the greatest praise for the enterprise enter-prise they show in erecting such 1 magnificent magnifi-cent building which is many years ahead of Salt Lake city of today but realizing what Salt Lake will be are erecting a building which will be a credit to a city like Chicago and will bo in keeping with Salt Lake city from five to ten or twenty years hence |
